About Behavioral Safety

This section of the site is about Behavioral Safety's foundations. It covers Behavioral Safety implementation pitfalls, what it is and isn't, and other useful information to either help in your considerations to use Behavioral Safety or to help you identify improvement opportunities to fine-tune your existing process.

A Brief Overview of Behavioral Safety

Since the late 1980's - early 1990’s Behavioral Safety has fast become an established weapon in the war on workplace accidents, as its use has helped many companies to dramatically slice through their accident plateau, something that hitherto could only be dreamed of. A vast body of scientific research testifies to the effectiveness of Behavioral Safety initiatives across a wide range of industries in many countries. Many companies, for example, have experienced 40-75 percent falls in their accident rates within the first six to twelve months of using Behavioral Safety.

What Defines Behavioral Safety

Many believe that if they are doing something to improve safety and it involves people's behavior then they are doing 'Behavioral Safety'. This is not always true! There are a number of defining features that distinguish Behavioral Safety from other types of safety improvement efforts. Check it out..

Known Problems

Behavioural Safety ebook

Do you want to know more about Behavioural Safety Processes? In partnership with Britain's Institute of Occupational Safety & Health (IOSH) BSMS has released an e-book Behavioural Safety: reducing workplace accidents to provide a useful introductory guide to the types of Behavioural Safety processes available for those looking for effective ways to reduce their incident rates.

Based on 3 decades of practical experience it provides you with an overview of various approaches so you can assess which one my be right for your company.

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Industry Survey on BBS - Safety Information

Industry Survey Results (cont....). This page reports on the number of respondents using BBS, Employee Involvement and the features of their Safety Management System.

Industry Survey on BBS - Demographics

We provided a voluntary online survey on this site to establish how Behavioral Safety is used in Industry. 1404 company's voluntarily responded. The following report provides a graphical breakdown of the responses received by the end of Dec 2007.